Verse 3

On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  På den niende dagen i måneden, hadde hungersnøden i byen blitt så alvorlig at det ikke fantes noe brød til folket.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  På den niende dagen i den fjerde måneden ble hungersnøden alvorlig i byen, og det var ikke brød til folket i landet.

• Norsk King James

  Og på den niende dagen av den fjerde måneden var det sult i byen, og det var ikke brød for folket.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  På den niende dagen i den fjerde måneden var det hungersnød i byen, og det var ikke brød til folket i landet.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  På den niende dagen i måneden ble hungersnøden i byen så alvorlig at det ikke var brød for folket i landet.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  På den niende dagen i den fjerde måneden gjorde hungersnøden stor skade i byen, og det var ikke brød for folket i landet.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Den niende dagen i den fjerde måneden herjet hungersnøden i byen, og det var intet brød for folk i landet.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  På den niende dagen i den fjerde måneden gjorde hungersnøden stor skade i byen, og det var ikke brød for folket i landet.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  På den niende dagen i den fjerde måneden, ble hungeren i byen så sterk at det ikke var mer brød til folket i landet.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city had become severe, and there was no food for the people of the land.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  På den niende dagen i den fjerde måneden ble hungersnøden i byen så alvorlig at det ikke fantes brød for folket.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Paa den niende (Dag) i (den fjerde) Maaned, da fik Hungeren Overhaand i Staden, og der var ikke Brød for Folket i Landet.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  På den niende dagen av den fjerde måneden var hungersnøden så stor i byen at det ikke var brød til folket i landet.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  På den niende dagen i den fjerde måneden var hungeren stor i byen, så det ikke var brød for folkene i landet.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  På den niende dagen i måneden, da hungersnøden var alvorlig i byen, fantes det ikke brød for landets folk.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  På den niende dagen i den fjerde måneden var hungersnøden i byen så stor at det ikke fantes brød for folkene i landet.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Den niende dagen i den fjerde måneden var matlageret i byen nesten tomt, slik at det ikke var mat til folket i landet.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  But on ye nyenth daye of the fourth moneth was the honger so stronge in the cite, that the people of the londe had nothinge to eate.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And the ninth day of the moneth the famine was sore in the citie, so that there was no bread for the people of the lande.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And the ninth day of the moneth, there was so great hunger in the citie, that there was no bread for the people of the lande.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And on the ninth [day] of the [fourth] month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  On the ninth day of the [fourth] month the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  on the ninth of the month -- when the famine is severe in the city, and there hath not been bread for the people of the land,

• American Standard Version (1901)

  On the ninth day of the [fourth] month the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Now on the ninth day of the fourth month, the store of food in the town was almost gone, so that there was no food for the people of the land.

• World English Bible (2000)

  On the ninth day of the [fourth] month the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city was so severe the residents had no food.

Referenced Verses

• Lev 26:26 : 26 And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.
• Deut 28:52-53 : 52 And he shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land: and he shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which the LORD your God has given you. 53 And you shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and your daughters, which the LORD your God has given you, in the siege, and in the distress, with which your enemies shall distress you:
• Jer 38:2 : 2 Thus says the LORD, He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence; but he who goes forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life as a prize, and shall live.
• Jer 52:6 : 6 And in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
• Lam 4:4-9 : 4 The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst; the young children ask for bread, and no one breaks it for them. 5 Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets; those who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills. 6 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown in a moment, and no hands stayed on her. 7 Her Nazirites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk; they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their appearance was like sapphire. 8 Their appearance is blacker than coal; they are not recognized in the streets; their skin clings to their bones; it has withered, it has become like a stick. 9 Those slain by the sword are better than those who die by hunger; for these waste away, stricken for want of the fruits of the field. 10 The hands of the compassionate women have cooked their own children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
• Ezek 5:12 : 12 A third part of you shall die with pestilence, and with famine they shall be consumed in your midst: and a third part shall fall by the sword around you; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.
• Ezek 7:15 : 15 The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine within; he who is in the field shall die by the sword, and he who is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
• Ezek 14:21 : 21 For thus says the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four severe judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the wild beasts, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
• Zech 8:19 : 19 Thus says the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.
• Ezek 4:9-9 : 9 Take also wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make bread of it for the number of the days that you shall lie upon your side, three hundred and ninety days you shall eat of it. 10 And the food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from time to time you shall eat it. 11 You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin; from time to time you shall drink. 12 And you shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it with human dung in their sight. 13 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, where I will drive them. 14 Then I said, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul has not been polluted, for from my youth up till now I have not eaten of that which dies of itself or is torn in pieces, neither has abominable flesh come into my mouth. 15 Then he said to me, See, I have given you cow's dung instead of human dung, and you shall prepare your bread with it. 16 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment: 17 That they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and waste away for their iniquity.
• Ezek 5:10 : 10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in your midst, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in you, and the whole remnant of you I will scatter into all the winds.
• Jer 39:2 : 2 And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the city was broken into.
• Jer 37:21 : 21 Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him a piece of bread daily out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.